News Source: The independent
| 3 months ago
Frank Warren's latest capture, brilliant young amateur star Ronnie Heffron – tipped as "the new Ricky Hatton" – is locked in a bitter financial battle which threatens the launch of his professional career next month. The British Amateur Boxing...
News Source: Chicago Tribune
| 3 months ago
A TV interviewer presses the U.S. senator on whether he is leaning toward a run for president, asking whether it's true that he's getting media coaching from a popular TV host. A wealthy backer later explains to the candidate that because his views...
News Source: The Guardian
| 3 months ago
Yesterday morning, the miserable news emerged that Budd Schulberg was out for the count ; he was 95 years old and not in the most sprightly condition, so it wasn't exactly a surprise. Schulberg was a Jewish-American tough nut of the old school, one...
News Source: Canadian Free Press
| 3 months ago
Budd Schulberg was a great writer and, though the word is widely used, a genius. Genius leaves its mark on the world and Schulberg’s novels and, in particular, his screenplays did that. While it is true that great actors breathed life into the...
News Source: USA Today
| 3 months ago
Budd Schulberg , who wrote one of the most celebrated scenes in movie history — Marlon Brando 's lament in On the Waterfront for what could have been — was passionate about boxing, politics and writing. It was he who created Brando's Oscar-...
News Source: Gawker
| 3 months ago
John Hughes , director of generation-defining class conscious teen comedies, is dead of a heart attack , at age 59. Hughes wrote, directed, or produced some of the most beloved and influential films of the 1980s, from National Lampoon's Vacation...